District Court Judge Database – The Historical Society for the United States District Court

S	Judge	Appointed By	Vice	Commission Date	Senior Status	Left Bench	Birthdate	Death
1	Ross Wilkins	Jackson	New	01/26/1837		resigned 02/18/1870	02/19/1799	05/17/1872
2	John W. Longyear	Grant	Wilkins	02/18/1870		died 03/11/1875	10/22/1820	03/11/1875
3	Henry Billings Brown	Grant	Longyear	03/19/1875		resigned 12/23/1890	03/02/1836	09/04/1913
4	Henry H. Swan	Harrison	Brown	01/21/1891		retired 07/01/1911	10/02/1840	06/12/1916
5	Alexis C. Angell	Taft	Swan	07/01/1911		resigned 06/01/1912	04/26/1857	12/24/1932
6	Arthur J. Tuttle	Taft	Angell	08/12/1912	8/12/1944	died 12/02/1944	11/08/1868	12/02/1944
7	Charles C. Simons	Harding	New	02/06/1923		resigned 02/02/1932	05/21/1876	02/02/1964
8	Edward J. Moinet	Coolidge	New	06/13/1927	3/1/1946	died 12/23/1952	07/14/1873	12/23/1952
9	Ernest A. O'Brien	Hoover	New	04/15/1931		died 10/09/1948	07/01/1897	10/09/1948
10	Arthur J. Lederle -Chief Judge 10/10/1948	Roosevelt	Simons	03/06/1936	1/30/1960	retired 07/01/1960	11/25/1887	04/29/1972
11	Frank A. Picard	Roosevelt	New	03/30/1939		died 02/28/1963	10/09/1889	02/28/1963
12	Arthur A. Koscinski	Truman	Tuttle	08/07/1945		retired 04/30/1957	04/01/1887	11/21/1957
13	Theodore Levin -Chief Judge 10/19/1959	Truman	Moinet	08/07/1946		died 12/31/1970	02/18/1897	12/31/1970
14	Thomas P. Thornton	Truman	O'Brien	02/15/1949	2/15/1966	died 07/01/1985	03/08/1898	07/01/1985
15	Ralph M. Freeman -Chief Judge 02/18/1967	Eisenhower	New	06/29/1954	7/1/1973	died 03/29/1990	05/05/1902	03/29/1990
16	Clifford P. O'Sullivan	Eisenhower	Koscinski	09/11/1957		resigned 04/04/1960	12/08/1897	10/07/1975
17	Frederick W. Kaess -Chief Judge 05/05/1972	Eisenhower	Lederle	07/10/1960	12/13/1975	died 03/30/1979	12/01/1910	03/30/1979
18	John Feikens	Eisenhower	Interim	10/07/1960		died 05/15/2011	12/03/1917	05/15/2011
19	Thaddeus M. Machrowicz	Kennedy	Picard	10/12/1961		died 02/17/1970	08/21/1899	02/17/1970
20	Wade H. McCree, Jr.	Kennedy	O'Sullivan	10/09/1961		resigned 09/07/1966	07/03/1920	08/30/1987
21	Talbot Smith	Kennedy	New	10/05/1961	10/31/1971	died 12/21/1978	10/11/1899	12/21/1978
22	Stephen J. Roth	Kennedy	New	05/08/1962		died 07/11/1974	04/21/1908	07/11/1974
23	Damon J. Keith -Chief Judge 12/14/1975	Johnson	Thornton	10/27/1967		resigned 01/22/1977	07/04/1922	01/00/1900
24	Lawrence Gubow	Johnson	McCree	10/11/1968		died 03/26/1978	01/10/1919	03/26/1978
25	Cornelia G. Kennedy -Chief Judge 01/23/1977	Nixon	Machrowicz	10/20/1970		resigned 10/04/1979	08/04/1923	05/12/2014
26	John Feikens -Chief Judge 10/04/1979	Nixon	New	12/01/1970	3/1/1986	died 05/15/2011	12/03/1917	05/15/2011
27	Phillip Pratt -Chief Judge 03/02/1986	Nixon	New	12/01/1970		died 02/07/1989	07/14/1924	02/07/1989
28	Robert E. DeMascio	Nixon	Levin	07/22/1971	1/15/1988	died 03/23/1999	01/11/1923	03/23/1999
29	Charles W. Joiner	Nixon	Smith	06/09/1972	8/15/1984	died 03/10/2017	02/14/1916	03/10/2017
30	James Harvey	Nixon	Freeman	12/19/1973	3/29/1984	retired 06/29/1992	07/04/1922	07/20/2019
31	James P. Churchill -Chief Judge 02/07/1989	Ford	Roth	12/20/1974	12/30/1989	Current	04/10
32	Ralph B. Guy, Jr.	Ford	Kaess	06/07/1976		resigned 10/17/1985	08/30/1929
33	Julian Abele Cook, Jr. -Chief Judge 12/31/1989	Carter	Gubow	09/23/1978	12/30/1996	retired 09/23/2014	06/22/1930	05/16/2017
34	Patricia J. Boyle	Carter	Keith	10/10/1978		resigned 04/23/1983	03/31/1937	01/13/2014
35	Avern Cohn	Carter	New	09/26/1979	10/9/1999	Current	07/23
36	Stewart A. Newblatt	Carter	New	09/26/1979	12/23/1993	Current	12/23
37	Anna Diggs Taylor -Chief Judge 12/31/1996	Carter	New	11/02/1979	12/31/1998	retired 01/01/2011	12/09/1932	11/04/2017
38	Horace W. Gilmore	Carter	Kennedy	06/18/1980	5/1/1991	died 01/25/2010	04/04/1918	01/25/2010
39	George E. Woods	Reagan	Boyle	11/16/1983	11/16/1993	died 10/09/2007	10/10/1923	10/09/2007
40	Richard F. Suhrheinrich	Reagan	Harvey	10/04/1984		resigned 07/12/1990	08/15/1936
41	George La Plata	Reagan	New	04/04/1985		retired 08/03/1996	10/17/1924	11/14/2010
42	Lawrence P. Zatkoff -Chief Judge 01/01/1999	Reagan	Guy	03/04/1986	6/16/2004	died 01/22/2015	06/16/1939	01/22/2015
43	Barbara K. Hackett	Reagan	Joiner	04/07/1986	4/8/1997	retired 03/01/2000	03/17/1928	12/23/2018
44	Patrick J. Duggan	Reagan	New	10/14/1986	9/29/2000	Current	09/28
45	Bernard A. Friedman -Chief Judge 06/16/2004	Reagan	DeMascio	04/20/1988	1/1/2009	Current	09/23
46	Paul V. Gadola	Reagan	Feikens	10/17/1988	1/31/2001	retired 09/05/2008	07/21/1929	12/26/2014
47	Gerald E. Rosen -Chief Judge 01/01/2009	H.W.Bush	Pratt	03/12/1990	10/26/2016	retired 02/01/2017	10/26/1951
48	Robert H. Cleland	H.W.Bush	Churchill	06/19/1990	3/1/2013	Current	04/26
49	Nancy G. Edmunds	H.W.Bush	Suhrheinrich	02/10/1992	8/1/2012	Current	07/10
50	Denise Page Hood -Chief Judge 01/01/2016*	Clinton	Woods	06/16/1994		Current	02/21
51	Paul D. Borman	Clinton	Newblatt	08/10/1994		Current	01/07
52	John Corbett O'Meara	Clinton	Gilmore	09/15/1994	1/1/2007	Current	11/04
53	Arthur J. Tarnow	Clinton	Cook	05/22/1998	5/26/2010	Current	02/03
54	George C. Steeh, III	Clinton	Hackett	05/22/1998	1/29/2013	Current	01/29
55	Victoria A. Roberts	Clinton	LaPlata	06/29/1998		Current	11/25
56	Marianne O. Battani	Clinton	Taylor	06/02/2000	6/9/2012	Current	05/18
57	David M. Lawson	Clinton	Cohn	06/02/2000		Current	01/11
58	Thomas L. Ludington	W.Bush	Gadola	06/12/2006		Current	12/28
59	Sean F. Cox	W.Bush	Zatkoff	06/12/2006		Current	09/24
60	Stephen J. Murphy, III	W.Bush	Duggan	08/18/2008		Current	09/23
61	Mark A. Goldsmith	Obama	O'Meara	06/22/2010		Current	08/29
62	Gershwin A. Drain	Obama	Friedman	08/08/2012		Current	01/24
63	Terrence G. Berg	Obama	Tarnow	12/07/2012		Current	08/05
64	Judith E. Levy	Obama	Edmunds	03/14/2014		Current	08/12
65	Laurie J. Michelson	Obama	Steeh	03/14/2014		Current	06/18
66	Matthew F. Leitman	Obama	Battani	03/14/2014		Current	08/02
67	Linda V. Parker	Obama	Cleland	03/17/2014		Current	02/17